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by shadowtree 9y ago
Economically, Hartz4 was a brilliant move by Germany. It enabled their economy to compete with Eastern Europe, kept their overal social net intact. Basically a big counter-pressure weight to rising wages. See how other EU5 did not follow th
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by shadowtree 9y ago
Doesn't FB require you to be 13? What are the chances that the self reported 18-24 group is full of younger teenagers and kids? Just like the age checks on Youtube or Steam. I'm 101 years old, per Valve's superior analytics :
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by shadowtree 9y ago
ORA is the elephant's graveyard of software. Once something gets bought by them, you know it is done. Slowly, but surely. They perform a function akin to the maggots that destroy cadavers in nature. Part of the overall ecosystem. ORA s
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by shadowtree 9y ago
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations - David S. Landes Agree or disagree with his findings, but it was the first book I read as a teenager that tried to connect seemingly disparate things into a single narrative - culture, technology, luck. Ja
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by shadowtree 9y ago
And if you think GDPR is a toothless joke, let's take a look at the defined fine stucture. It is pretty simple, only 3 levels (strikes for the fellow Americans): Strike 1 - Stern warning letter Strike 2 - 2% of your TOTAL GLOBAL REVENU
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by shadowtree 9y ago
Any project in a heavily regulated environment is not measurable that way. The cost comes from compliance, audits, paperwork. Trials, PoCs, etc. You also need to prove security and a long term lifecycle for the solution. Those open source p
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by shadowtree 9y ago
Fox News, Breitbart et all are massively anti-globalists. Breitbart marks Globalists in their article headlines with literal globes. Also a pure coincidence that all of those are Jewish of course. Trump ran on abolishing NAFTA and TTIP. How
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by shadowtree 9y ago
I did. But the thing deep within never goes away.
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Being poor is living in an illegal cellar flat. Being poor is wiping off the mold from your shoes before putting them on. Being poor is buying second hand - unironically. Being poor is working harder than your peers. Being poor is not being
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ah, ok - don't think I tried USB. Guess the radio of the car then takes control and tries to use the phone as an external drive, overriding the native music app.
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Weird - why do people not just have play set to random? I've been using Aux, Bluetooth - never had this issue.
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by shadowtree 9y ago
Well, it wouldn't hurt. Great progress right now: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/research/car-t... The total money spent on cancer is bigger than 20B though.